News

by John Motley

Throughout her new exhibition, "As Easy as Falling off a Log," Vanessa Renwick fixates on wood and sex, pairing her interests in the great outdoors with the bedroom, so to speak.

by John Motley

In his past work, Kemp, who serves as chairman of PNCA's MFA in Visual Studies program, has explored ideas of blackness as a means to understand and express his experience as an African American.

by Patrick Collier

In 1957 the State of Oregon outlawed the use of splash dams on Oregon waterways. Splash dams were built on rivers and creeks as a way to back up water in a sufficient volume to propel logged trees downstream. The flood caused by the sudden gush of water, plus the massive number of logs, scoured the waterways down to the bedrock, thereby making those streams inhospitable to the spawning salmon that required gravel beds (redds) to lay and fertilize eggs. Only after a series of lawsuits by anglers and environmentalists was the practice terminated nationwide.

http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2010/11/vanessa_renwick_2.html

November 11 - January 2, 2011. Click on image for more information.

"Drawing Room": Ellen George & Jerry Mayer
November 4 – November 28, 2010
Nine Gallery (inside Blue Sky Gallery)
12:00 – 5:00pm Tuesday - Sunday
122 NW 8th
Portland OR 97209
503-225-0210
CLICK ON IMAGE FOR MORE INFORMATION

http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2010/11/filmmakerartist_vanes….
"Vanessa Renwick, the Portland filmmaker/artist/provocateur who serves as doyenne of the Oregon Department of Kickass brings a new show of video and photographic work to the PDX Contemporary Art's Across the Hall gallery this month.

Entitled "as easy as falling off a log," the show includes video, sculpture and photography, musical themes by Sam Coomes and the collaboration of the design collective Von Tundra.

The show opens on Tuesday November 2, with a reception during First Thursday on November 4."

http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2010/10/flechemuller_at.html. Click on image for more information.

November 18, 2010 – February 26, 2011
Curated by: Gerri Ondrizek, Reed College; Barbara Tetenbaum, Oregon College of Art and Craft; and Namita Gupta Wiggers, Museum of Contemporary Craft.
The artist’s book is an object that extends work beyond the boundaries of a gallery setting. Through selections from the significant 20th century modern and contemporary artists’ books in Reed College’s Special Collections, this exhibition explores the book as an object which defies the boundaries between art, craft and design, and moves along a spectrum from a recognizable to a deconstructed form.

Review of Adam Sorensen's "New Westerns" in Art Ltd. Nov/Dec 2010 issue. Click on image for more information.

This November, we are transforming our Window Project into a sock-gathering site, gathering deeply-needed socks for seasonal workers and other people who need warm feet. Help us out by donating clean, matched or unmatched, new or old socks. So many of us have extra socks that we don’t know what to do with, whether it’s an old pair or some random single sock hanging out by the dryer.

The socks will be donated to the Center for Workers and to VOZ (Worker’s Rights Education Project), their sponsor organization. Chelsea Mosher of Sign Wizards will design a sign for the project.

You can drop off socks at PDX Contemporary Art, and at these additional drop-off spots:
- Publication Studio, 717 SW Ankeny Street
- Mabel & Zora, 748 NW 11th Street

* We would like to start getting sock donations right away. You can drop off socks at PDX from Tuesday Oct. 26th - Saturday Nov. 27th.

image credit: Tucker Nichols, "Untitled," 2008, colored pencil on paper. click on image for more information